The Lunar Cowboy

I try to make an effort to occassionally go through the Gentoo Build Publisher Install Guide to make sure it is up to date, but I don't always get to it between major changes. Recently it came to my attention that the Install Guide was not working as expected. I've …

Gentoo Build Publisher uses buildah containers to build each machine's binary packages. For each machine, the Jenkins build runs arbitrary commands in the respective container. Usually the user does not need to concern themselves with this implementation detail. But sometimes we need to "open up" the container and do something …

Not long ago Gentoo announced binary packages for Gentoo! So even if you're not using Gentoo Build Publisher you can still use Gentoo and take advantage of binary packages. However there is still a place for Gentoo Build Publisher. There are a few things that can be done with GBP …

This is a short tip and (self) reminder about getting GBP to purge old builds from a machine that is disabled on Jenkins.

A bit of background here. Gentoo Build Publisher has a "purge" feature that will auto-purge old builds from a machine. This process kicks off automatically when after …

Let's say you use Gentoo Build Publisher to continuously build your Gentoo machine's packages, but you haven't updated your actual machine in a while. And finally when you do something's broken but you don't know what broke or when? Well something like that happened to me and I want to …

Let's say you've upgraded to tracker-3.4 and it doesn't work. You could mask tracker-3.4, but it depends on tracker-miners-3.4 so you'll have to mask that too. There may be other dependencies that you'd have to mask too. What you'd really rather do is go back in time …

In my article from 14 months ago when I introduced Gentoo Build Publisher I wrote "Next time I will write about how one can install one's own gbp instance." Well that didn't happen. It's not that I couldn't document it, but I first wanted to make installing GBP easy. I …

When one is performing Gentoo builds inside a CI/CD container (inside another container) and a build fails it is sometimes desirable to create a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org. Often the Gentoo developers require that you include the error output and build logs. However getting the logs out …

Screenshots and explanation of the new Gentoo Build Publisher dashboard.

I am still working on a way to make Gentoo Build Publisher easy(er) to install and use. Initially I've wanted to create Docker images for the different components. However the main issue with that is that the Jenkins builds use buildah to build Gentoo machines in containers, and while …